Understanding Society

Early in his theoretical treatise of rational-choice sociology Foundations of Social Theory , James Coleman introduces a diagram of dif...

Does economic theory provide anything like a concrete set of reliable policies for creating sustained economic growth in a middle-incom...

Where do institutions come from? And what kinds of social forces are at work to stabilize them once they are up and running?  These are que...

Manuel DeLanda has been a prominent exponent of the theory of assemblage for English-speaking readers for at least ten years. His 2006 b...

The post-war German historian Reinhart Koselleck made important contributions to the theory of history that are largely independent fr...

Paul Draus and Juliette Roddy have been involved in street-level sociological research in Detroit for over ten years. Roddy is an econ...

I am very happy to say that my new book appeared this week, New Directions in the Philosophy of Social Science . Thanks to all the pe...

One reasonable way of thinking about the most fundamental goal of international economic development is to increase the level of human ...